In November, about eight months after the Laribys first applied, Mr. Feinberg informed them that they were entitled to receive a gross award of $976,915 -- $726,915 in economic loss and a flat rate of $250,000 for pain and suffering.
The magazine looked at solo rappers who released music between 2009 and the first half of 2011 by analyzing their album sales, rankings on the R&B/hip-hop and rap charts, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards and critics' ratings, and the data accumulated named Eminem the king of the time period.
Deals are announced, grosses trumpeted, award juries lobbied.
Howard Gordon was praiseful of physical effects supervisor Toby Lindala's work on this episode, quipping that Lindala's effects "won the gross-out award".
"In the Bedroom" and the French sensation "Amélie" ($3 million total acquisition costs, $70 million total box office gross, five Academy Award nominations each) show that focusing on big-budget films does not give the whole story.
The Nobel Prize Committee has made a gross miscalculation in awarding the Nobel Prize to President Obama.
Yet the fact remains that it wasn't in the running for the recent Best Of Booker award (a gross oversight, given that mediocrities like The Ghost Road and Disgrace were).
My award for gross incompetence goes to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and they still hold that first place honor after more than 33 years of my reporting.
In some banks, senior staff are being awarded half the gross profits of their divisions.
They have ducked the three major reforms necessary to make the media both free and accountable, namely the reversal of the burden of proof on defendants in libel cases, the introduction of a carefully defined tort (civil wrong) that would entitle juries to award damages for gross breaches of privacy, and the total and complete abolition of the Press Complaints Commission.
